Bekymret for it i grunnskolen

- Den aller viktigste faktoren for å kunne gi alle elever digitale ferdigheter er digitalt kompetente lærere og ledere, sier Yrvin i spørretimen på Stortinget, og etterlyser en systematisk satsing på lærerutdanning og videreutdanning på området.

Hun sier videre at det er mange kreative lærere rundt om i landet som vet at pedagogiske læringsmål kan nås når elevene får være kreative og skapende med digitale verktøy, så lenge muligheten er på plass.

Digitale læremidler er den tredje tilnærmingen Yrvin tar opp. I dag bruker skolene egenprodusert materiale, gratis innhold og verktøy fra nettet og innkjøpt materiale. Riktig verktøy er en forutsetning for god læringseffekt, og Yrvin mener det er avgjørende for at it skal bli en integrert del av all læring.

Da må staten på banen, for selv med Nasjonal Digital Læringsarena (NDLA) som ble etablert i 2006 er det viktig med en nasjonal fellessatsning der skolene selv kan vurdere tilbud etter behov fra ulike leverandører.

Kilde: Computerworld

Smart Læring

I DMLs akademiske pusteforum "Faglig Fredag" hadde jeg gleden av å gå løs på Arne Krokans siste langleser, "Smart Læring". Boken analyserer læring i et historisk, teknologisk, pedagogisk, organisatorisk og biologisk perspektiv. Forfatteren beskriver nyere pedagogiske tankesett som konnektivisme og peeragogy (samlæring), som viser veier til smartere måter å organisere læreprosesser på.

Speiderblogg

The Transmedia Generation: Spreadable Media, Fan Activism, and Participatory Learning

What do mean when we say "participatory culture" and what challenges do we face in trying to more fully realize this ideal, especially in regards to youth participation?

Connected Learning

Old-school skills still worth cultivating

Here are a few other old-school skills that are still worth cultivating:

• Handwriting. Research shows that forming letters by hand, as opposed to typing them into a computer, not only helps young children develop their fine motor skills but also improves their ability to recognize letters — a capacity that, in turn, predicts reading ability at age five. But many schools are now emphasizing typing over writing. Last year, for example, the Indiana Department of Education announced that the state’s public schools no longer had teach cursive writing, and should ensure that students were “proficient in keyboard use” instead.
  
• Argumentation. In a public sphere filled with vehemently expressed opinion, the ability to make a reasoned argument is more important than ever. Educational research on argumentation demonstrates that it helps students learn better, too. A study published in the Journal of Research in Science Teaching in 2010, for example, foundthat tenthgraders who were taught how to construct an argument as part of their lessons on genetics not only had better arguments but also demonstrated a better understanding of the material.
  
• Reading aloud. Many studies have shown that when students are read to frequently by a teacher, their vocabulary and their grasp of syntax and sentence structure improves. Educator Doug Lemov, author of Teach Like a Champion and co-author of the new book Practice Perfect, explains why: “Children who are read to become familiar with the sound and rhythm and complexity of language long before they can produce it themselves. By virtue of being exposed to a wide variety of writing types and styles, they come to understand that the use of language involves intentional choices made by the author, and is representative of the author’s time and place.”

Stories are especially powerful when narrated by a good reader, says Lemov — “someone who brings the story to life, models expressive reading and shows kids what a book ‘sounds like’ in the voice of someone who reads with passion.” But reading aloud, he adds, is a “dying art.” Maybe we adults should brush up on our old-school skills, too.

TIME.com